Today, Kaytee and Mary are discussing:

• Bookish Moments: virtual author events and a library fake out

• Current Reads: books that get better and better and have big emotions

• Deep Dive: what is spoopy season? And what do we read for peak spoopiness?

• Book Presses: spoopy presses for your shelves

As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! 

New: we are now including transcripts of the episode. These are generated by AI, so they may not be perfectly accurate, but we want to increase accessibility for our fans!

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Bookish Moments:

2:14 - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

Current Reads:

6:01 - The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller (Mary)

9:34 - New York by Edward Rutherford (Kaytee)

11:54 - A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green (Mary)

11:59 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

15:38 - Book 3 - I could find no evidence!

16:19 - Big Friendship by Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow (Kaytee)

16:27 - Scribd: try it out for 2 months free

17:03 - Call Your Girlfriend Podcast

19:29 - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness with Siobhan Dowd (Mary)

23:53 - My Storied Year by Katie Proctor (Kaytee)

Deep Dive - Books for Spoopy Season:

29:23 - The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

30:14 - City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab

31:48 - Sweep: A Girl and Her Monster by Jonathan Auxier

32:40 - The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

33:48 - Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell

34:45 - Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

34:52 - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

34:58 - A Study in Scarlet Women (Lady Sherlock Series) by Sherry Thomas

36:56 - And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

38:00 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

38:11 - Jane Eyre narrated by Thandie Newton

40:32 - The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

41:32 - Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

41:33 - Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey

41:40 - Harry Potter by JK Rowling

41:41 - Tana French books

42:28 - Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

42:37 - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands:

44:52 - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton (Mary)

44:58 - My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, and Brodi Ashton

45:09 - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

47:42 - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (Kaytee)

47:51 - It by Stephen King

47:53 - Pet Sematary by Stephen King

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